[SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON]. THEOCRITUS. Bucolicorum Graecorum...Reliquiae Accedentibus Incertorum Idyllis. Recensuit Henricus Ludolfus Ahrens. Editio Secunda. Leipzig: Teubner, 1856, 142 pp., Greek text [bound with:] GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Hermann und Dorothea. Stuttgart: Gotta'fcher, 1859, 106 pp., German text. Together 2 vols. in 1, small 8vo, contemporary brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine, sprinkled edges, lightly worn, cloth slipcase. SYMONDS'S COPY (undoubtedly used for his Studies of the Greek Poets, 1873 & 1876), with his signature and the name of his Oxford college ("Ball: Coll:") on front free endpaper, with very extensive ink (mainly) and pencil translation notes in Greek and English and comments on 37 flyleaf pages (extra blank leaves had been bound in) and with some 132 text pages (of the Theocritus's 142 pages) copiously annotated and marked by him (a few pages of the Goethe are also marked). On a front flyleaf Symonds comments: "The beauty of Theocritus' style is in its perfect choice of words and consumate melody -- a richness of colouring suggested rather than elaborated -- a delicate adoption of cadence to sentiment and thought -- a fragrance & golden bloom of summer"; on another front flyleaf he writes: "In Classical landscape there is an inevitable melody and deep hidden sense of beauty. The grave spires of the cypress contrasting with the soft grey olive clothing mountain side and valley...The deified hush of Nature...A fairy garden of the age of gold." Inscribed on the front paste-down from A.C. Benson (author and Cambridge scholar) to Edmund Gosse (at Cambridge, 8 July 1911) with a note that this was Symonds's copy with his notes.